Astronomy
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Colin Nicholl [Nicholl, Colin]

FIG. 9.2 Halley’s Comet (1P/Halley) (NASA/W. Liller). A photograph taken on March 8, 1986, by W. Liller, Easter Island, as part of the International Halley Watch Large Scale Phenomena Network. ...
( Category: New Testament February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-13 | Author:Joshua Gilder & Anne-Lee Gilder

CHAPTER 15 CONFRONTATION IN PRAGUE ON HEARING OF KEPLER’S UNEXPECTED ARRIVAL IN PRAGUE, BRAHE IMMEDIATELY DISPATCHED HIS ELDEST SON, TYGE, AND SOON-TO-BE SON-IN-LAW, Franz Tengnagel, in a carriage to the ...
( Category: Astronomy February 9,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Hugh M. Van Horn

Koester rapidly made himself a leading expert in modeling the outer layers and atmospheres of these stars, hardly a surprising focus for someone trained in the school established by the ...
( Category: Astronomy January 9,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gerrit Verschuur

9.5 Novae The word nova means ‘new star.’ From time to time a new star seen with the naked eye does appear in our heavens. Such an event occurred in ...
( Category: Astronomy January 9,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Ashley

Occultations A third lunar activity very suited for video astronomy is timing occultations of stars by the Moon. An occultation is when some object passes between a star and an ...
( Category: Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition January 8,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Mark Gallaway

8.3.2 Pointing Once you have all your calibration frames done, open the dome (assuming it’s dark). Some telescopes require you align to two or three bright stars. If you need ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science December 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-02 | Author:Dava Sobel

PART THREE In the Depths Above I saw in the stars a chance to observe phenomena beyond terrestrial scope. Nothing seemed impossible in those early days; we were going to ...
( Category: State & Local December 8,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Peter Machamer [Peter Machamer]

Salviati is certain, however, that the darker parts are plains and the brighter ones mountain ranges because “the boundary which separates the light and the dark part makes an even ...
( Category: Modern November 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-14 | Author:Charles Wohlforth

FUTURE Technology for continuous acceleration in space developed extraordinarily rapidly, seemingly overnight, like flight after the Wright brothers or the Internet in the 1990s. As in those cases, however, the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight November 18,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Thompson

SIX A Goliath Among Planets LEAVING THE ASTEROID BELT behind marks a new phase in your journey. With the exception of the Sun, all the objects you have visited so ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight November 11,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Louisa Preston

Nature’s Superheroes – the Water Bears The epitome of a polyextremophile and the kings (or queens) of surviving extreme environments, tardigrades are incredibly endearing, eight-legged, all-but-indestructible and mainly microscopic animals. ...
( Category: Biology September 6,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-09 | Author:David Ewing Duncan [Duncan, David Ewing]

The first use of zero as a fully formed number seems to have appeared around the time of Brahmagupta in the seventh century, when this great Indian mathematician tried, but ...
( Category: Astronomy July 12,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Stephen P. Maran [Maran, Stephen P.]

Meeting Pluto, an Unusual Planet Pluto is the most distant planet from the sun in our solar system (see Figure 9-1). It moves inside the orbit of Neptune every 248 ...
( Category: Astronomy June 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-14 | Author:Brian Thomas Swimme & Mary Evelyn Tucker

SYMBOLIC CONSCIOUSNESS Our behavioral freedom and our curiosity led to an entirely new level of consciousness. Consider a moment from early human evolution, say a hundred thousand years ago. Some ...
( Category: Astronomy May 15,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-12 | Author:Roger Wiens

chapter fourteen CANCELED THE MSL ROVER PROJECT GOT ALONG FINE FINANCIALLY FOR the first two years. Some areas grew in cost, but the program had more than enough in reserve ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 12,2016 )